“The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.”

“If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.”

“If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.”

“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”

“The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.”

“Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.”

“Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.”

“I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.”

“It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.”

“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.”

“Never let a good crisis go to waste”

“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”

“The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.”

“The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.”

“Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.”

“All difficulties are easy when they are known.”

“Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.”

“That we would doWe should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,And hath abatements and delays as manyAs there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,That hurts by easing.”

“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”

“By-and-by is easily said.”